The organizin committee of the ASM Young Researcher’s Symposium Switzerland encourage all young scientists (students, Dr., PhD and Postdoc) in fields related to microbiology to apply:

We are excited to announce a new interesting initiative for young scientists across Switzerland. The ASM Young Researcher’s Symposium Switzerland to be held online on 30 July 2021, is a collaboration between the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, and the Swiss Society for Food Hygiene (SGLH). This unique event targets undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate researchers from Switzerland in all fields of microbiology. The idea behind it is to share research, interact and possibly foster collaborations between groups that share common interests or resources. The core aim is to enhance data exchange and improve early-career scientists presentation skills by affording them the platform to share their project ideas and latest results. Participants will get input and feedback from peers possibly improving their presentation skills and getting new insights to improve their research. We hope that this event will further encourage and foster networking, collaboration, and resource sharing.

A keynote lecture will be given by an expert in the field of Covid 19. Several presenter prizes for the oral and poster sessions will be awarded to the best presenters as defined by a jury, and the most popular presenter overall as defined by the audience. During the event and at the end there will be open-ended online mixer opportunities to further network. 

Be part of this first-of-a-kind online meeting uniting the young microbiology scientists throughout Switzerland.

Participation is for FREE! You can register with or without an abstract (to get the meeting link). From the submitted abstracts, we will select abstracts for talks and some for poster flashes.

Registration and more information:  https://www.ils.uzh.ch/en/young-researcher%E2%80%99s-symposium-.html

Registration deadline is the 5^th of July 2021, the authors of selected posters will be notified by 10 July 2021. More details on the talk or poster flash will be provided to the selected abstract authors.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Best regards, 

The organising committee: Francis Muchaamba [ASM Young Ambassador to Switzerland] and Danai Etter [SGLH representative]